MichMatters
MichMatters
About
- Username
- MichMatters
- Joined
- Visits
- 25,346
- Last Active
- Roles
- Moderator
Comments
-
I wouldn't even call these plans; we're at the very beginning of this. What is being shown is a concept, at best. It really does leave questions as to who they've talked to in the state on this. But like you said, that they've conceived this would i…
-
I certainly hope they develop this concept a bit more - the northwest and southeast quadrants will really need to be something other than grass lawns - but I'm just so happy about getting rid of those awful surface lots. Also, I'm confused about why…
-
Yeah, I was excited when I saw this. I hope this spurs redevelopment of the parking lots on the other side of Allegan, eventually. I'm very curious about the discussions between the Capitol Commission and DTMB on this, because it could point towards…
-
Looks like the only thing of interest in next week's council agenda is the approval for the brownfield plan for 505-507 East Shiawassee Street being up. There is also the public hearing for the sale of the parking lot at 425 South Grand, which I ima…
-
Ahh, thinking more about it, I wouldn't mind the addition of a 5th ward seat so that we wouldn't have ties on council and because I'd like another ward seat. But that'd be more of a cosmetic concern than anything else since ties are simply failed vo…
-
I mean, I imagine they have just found out about it like the rest of us. lol
-
A very vocal group has been pushing a change to a manager-council government and for 8-9 wards. Funny, I'd heard absolutely nothing of this. But maybe this is why in the last few weeks I heard Clerk Swope slyly warning people against it. lol …
-
Well, because voters didn't know what they were doing, Lansing voters narrowly and accidentally approved a general revision of the city charter proposal, tonight, which will open up an expensive process. Any structural changes anyone wants to see? l…
-
Oops, wrong thread.
-
Can you guys take this over to more appropriate threads for this? This is getting off-topic, here. Streets & Transit Natural Lansing: Parks, Forestry and Nature
-
Yeah, I'm looking back to a post I made in June 2019 when they were building Block 600 and made an easement request for building foundation footings which would literally only extend 2 feet under the sidewalk. The agenda for that meeting brings up t…
-
There was an update on the Ovation Center in the CoW meeting minutes. MSUFCU is apparently still fundraising to "enhance" the project; they won't be asking the city for anymore money. The city is currently doing soil testing & other prelim site …
-
I'm a broken record on this, but the city should have been actively look at commercial/industrial/vacant areas it wants to annex and finding a few favorable residential parcels to vote on to bring the land into the city like they did down at the nor…
-
Because they have such sparse agendas (no packets) & minutes, there is not a lot of detail in the last planning commission about Howard & Michigan, but what I'm noticing from the minutes is that they are again micro-managing the development.…
-
After I'd asked on here, I actually did hear something through the grapevine that the project is still very much working behind the scenes, though I didn't get any details. So that was good to hear. I was just surprised how it completely disappeared…
-
Between Cane's, Dave's, Buffalo Wild Wings and Detroit Wing Company, I think we may be getting chickened out. I'm only half joking. lol
-
I'm going to keep asking, but what's going on with New Vision Lansing? As soon as it was announced, the council was talking about actions to vote on accepting the money from the state literally within the week or two after the announcement, and then…
-
Citykid, I've been here all these years, but something just struck me, yesterday. The parking lane on the east side of Larch between Shiawassee and Saginaw continues north of Saginaw to Grand River, basically. But it appears that it hasn't been u…
-
They are painting and putting some of the siding on the market-rate building. Something else I'd noticed I hadn't before is that they're almost finished with the internal parking lot. But what I noticed was how low the new grade is over the previous…
-
It's in an overlay district that requires it to be urban in design. Remember, they'd proposed something substantial here a few years back, though the weird inclusion of a self-storage business as one of the uses on the site seemed to have (fortunate…